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Re: [cobalt-users] email aliases on RaQ not working - "user unknown"... and now MX loop problem



On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Fraser Stephens wrote:
 From knowledgebase:

 >Question
 >    Why do none of my email aliases work on my RaQ4?
 >Answer
 >     There are 2 things to check:
 >     1) Make sure that the domain.com is in the Email Server Aliases
 >under the Site Settings for the Virtual Site.
 >     2) Also make sure that host.domain.com is in the Host/Domain
 >Aliases filed in the Email
 >         Server Parameters under Server Management --> Control Panel
 >--> Email Server Parameters.

 Which is a catch-22 situation, since you can't do both! And either
 way the problem remains - I can send email to the user "phil" but not
 to his alias "sales". I get a

 550 5.1.1 <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown

 So I've played with DNS for a bit, and now I get

 > 553 5.3.5 mail.carnetonlinelimited.co.uk. config error: mail loops
 back to me (MX problem?)

well, looking at carnetonlinelimited.co.uk records the mx looks ok
and so does carnoisseur.com.
Are you sure that you have setup an alias of @www.carnoisseur.com
in phil's email setup.?

Also are you sure that you don't have a username sales someplace?

Sure of the latter (or rather I didn't at the time - I do now, just to get something working!) but I don't think I do the former - just where does the @www.carnoisseur.com go and why? I tried pasting "sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" into phil's alias box but it didn't like it.

DNS set up is carnoisseur.com, www.carnoisseur.com and mail.carnoisseur.com all point at the RaQ's IP and there is an MX record for carnoisseur.com pointing to mail.carnetonlinelimited.co.uk.

F. (can't check things at the moment - the RaQ has just disappeared again - 2nd time today!)
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